Dominique Urvoy is a historian of Islamic philosophy and French Islamologist .
He is a professor at the University Toulouse-II Le Mirail .
minique Urvoy spent a license sociology in 1965 and the aggregation of philosophy in 1967. He then obtained a PhD studies Arab and a doctorate in letters , respectively in 1974 and 1978 . He has been a researcher and teacher in Madrid , Damascus , the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Beirut , Dakar and Toulouse .
He is the husband of Marie-Thérèse Urvoy , with whom he has co-written several books: The Words of Islam (2004), The psychological action in the Koran (2007), and The Mentente. Dictionary of doctrinal difficulties of the islamo-christian dialogue (2014).
He has been a member of the Academy of Legislation since 2001